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Permaculture at CEL, Kundapur

Permaculture at CEL, Kundapur

Permaculture is a fundamental part of “Sustainable Agriculture” and it is what we have adopted at the “Centre for Experiential Living” (CEL), Kundapur. It is a whole system for providing human needs, using natural resources by maintaining its state of resilience, avoiding the use of limited resources. During December 2019, we reset the organic garden of the Centre using an organic “Synergic” method, based on the respect of the natural cycle, re-use of the resources already existing around the site,…

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Creating Art for Awareness

Creating Art for Awareness

How can we reach out to people, to make them reflect upon their behaviours and gain knowledge about how those behaviours effect the environment? At FSL India, we approach people in many different ways, in school sessions, writing these blog posts, creating activities to involve locals, and also using the media to reach even more people, to name some examples. Displaying messages about a sustainable future on public wall paintings is an artsy way to gain much attention. This week,…

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Climate Justice Campaign

Climate Justice Campaign

On 13th December 2019, on the occasion of ‘Kodi Habba’, The Clean Kundapura Project and FSL India jointly organised an awareness campaign about Anti-Plastic and Sea Turtle Conservation along with the FSL India volunteer’s staff and Clean Kundapura Project volunteers during the Koteshwara festival. The team members of Clean Kundapura Project and FSL India volunteers spread awareness among the festival visitors through distributing flyers and interacting with them. Since many shop keepers used plastics for packing items, we visited shops…

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Street cleaning in Kandlur

Street cleaning in Kandlur

Today’s dirt and ignorance will have to be cleaned up and paid for by tomorrow’s generations. FSL India’s HBP volunteers, staff and school teachers participating in street cleaning with schoolchildren in Kandlur on 13th of December, was an obvious example of that. Seeing schoolchildren climbing down into the trenches alongside of the road, collecting bottles, plastic wrappers, old paper etc. For these particular children, the street cleaning session was faced with enthusiasm. The children were divided into groups, each responsible…

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World Water Day – 2014

World Water Day – 2014

       World Water Day has been observed on the 22nd of March since 1993 since the United Nations General Assembly declared it so. To commemorate this day, and spread awareness on the importance of water, FSL-India joined hands with the Water Literacy Foundation and took part in an awareness raising rally.            The Water Literacy Foundation, one of our local partners, works towards rain water harvesting systems and FSL-India has been placing volunteers there…

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